And so it begins… The long road to decompression and the end of my burnout. As I mentioned in a blog post on Monday, I am Leaving Bankrate. It was not an easy decision to make but it was a move that needed to happen. I am considering writing a postmortem for the whole ordeal. I’m not sure I’ll ever publish it. But, it is something many others could benefit from.

This morning I woke up at 6:30 AM not quite knowing what to do with myself. On a normal morning, I would immediately check Slack, e-mail, PagerDuty, and iMessage as there would be something waiting for me to act on. When I went to shower this morning I grabbed my phone out of instinct, because someone was going to call me from work, right? Nope. It was nice to grab my phone so I could shower and listen to music without worrying about someone calling or a page coming in.

Bankrate rewired my brain from proactive to reactive in a way I thought I had trained myself out of years ago. What’s next? There are some things in the works. I will announce whatever my next steps are when the time is right. But, now is not that time. Stay tuned…

A Year of Tech Solidarity: “Since Trump’s election, tech workers have shown unprecedented interest in political organizing — maybe even unionizing — but as efforts like Tech Solidarity show, it’s going to take a while to see real impact.”

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Google’s approach to observability by JBD: “Collecting diagnostics data all across the stack to identify and debug production problems and also to provide critical signals about usage to our highly adaptive and scalable environment.”

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I'm Chris Short, 20+ veteran of the IT industry and 11 year veteran of the US Air Force. I help people and companies embrace DevOps practices and tools through writing and public speaking. I am a staunch advocate for transparency and open source solutions to problems.